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richardwaite

I didn't think of it like that, but you're right. Moving an appointment should be a deliberate thing, so confirming it makes sense.

As for the other options, would it be possible to incorporate those in the next version?

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Some things that have been bothering me lately are the modal dialogs when scheduling/moving appointments. The dialogs in question are the "Move appointment", "Change provider", and "Change length for provider". I added three checkboxes in the modules preference screen and wrapped the dialogs in chec...

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When adding medications to the program, it seems like there is a hard coded limit on the size of the field that displays the name. This can cause issues if the names are too large to fit. Is this something that could be changed or would it be too much trouble? Maybe formatting the medications list a...

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I have a question about the changes to the internal representation of insurance plans in version 7.5 (see http://opendental.com/manual/version7_5.html ). On that page you mention that this change will be the foundation for other exciting features - could one of those features possibly be allowed fee...

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Thanks.

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Sorry, "billing" should be "willing." So you do not accept patches from outside developers at all? A plugin for this kind of change just strikes me as overkill. It would have to be installed on all machines and maintained - does tab order really change that often? The only reason I brought this spec...

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Personally I'd rather see Open Dental integrate Twilio (http://www.twilio.com/) functionality.

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What would be the best way to fix these annoyances, then? I would be billing to email or post diffs if that would be acceptable. I'm speaking about only minor things here, like tab order or other UI quirks.

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In FormUserPassword the tab indexes don't make much sense to me. "New Password" is 0, "OK" is 1, "Cancel" is 2, and "New Password Again" is 3. I would expect it to be: "New Password" 0, "New Password Again" 1, "OK" 2, "Cancel" 3. Also, pressing the Enter key does not seem to trigger "OK". I'm not su...

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You are right, I have no idea how I miscalculated that. I blame Windows' Calculator.

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99.9% would come out to something around 36 hours.

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I'd like to throw this out there for some discussion before submitting it through the feature request system. Would it be possible to support custom queries in the sheets framework? That way users could add "custom" fields without having to request a new one.

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Jordan, I see that you've commented the hook out in version 7.0 - is this a major bug? What exactly happens? Can I work on the plugin for now and expect it to be reinstated soon?

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Thanks. I think I'll go for it. How soon do you suppose the login hook could be added? Next released version?

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I've been thinking about trying to code up a SoftDent memo-esque feature for quite some time. It looks like the plugin architecture should facilitate this, but without looking in detail I have just a few questions. Is there a "hook" for the initial login of a user? I would need something like this t...

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Please consider PostgresQL. It is open source, BSD licensed, and is much closer to Oracle than any of the other open source databases. It runs well on Windows as well as Linux. The similarity to Oracle especially should provide you with an easier time supporting that DB.

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I don't know if this is by design or not, but when running the statements from Manage->Billing, every statement seems to show a line item for "Statement-Mail (unsent)". I think I understand why this would happen technically, because the statement is probably put into the account as unsent and only m...

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That makes sense, I suppose. It sounds like this office is manually doing what the system will do for them (with the # of days values). Up until now they've been manually going in and running it for some past range, whereas if they set those values it will happen automatically.

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Ok, I did go through that list, and for some people at least (those that I've checked so far) there is a commlog entry for recall and they reappear in the recall list when I delete it. My main question is - why would this cause them to be removed if the recall system supports multiple recalls? We ha...

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Hmm. I do remember something like that, I think. This is kind of a big deal because many offices use this to catch "left-behinds" so they can send them multiple postcards.

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Hi, I've been working with this and it definitely seems like a bug. When running the recall list for a period in the past (like 10/01/2009 to 10/31/2009) it only brings a few people up. But there are several people that if I go to their Family module they are shown as being due within that period an...

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The one thing that I always notice in flamewars like this is that people forget is that there is always lock in, in one way or another. Software written for Linux can depend on POSIX forking and pipe behavior and all sorts of Unixy weirdness.

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Having a second router will *not* isolate someone from your local network and subnet masks can be changed easily. This is not something I would do unless you knew exactly what you were doing (and hence, would not need to read this thread). There is simply too much risk involved.

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I've been meaning to post this for a while but I keep forgetting. I made a favicon for the Open Dental web page that is just the little Rubik's cube style Open Dental icon. You can grab it here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/a082767/n/od_favicon_ico All you need to do to "install" it is rename it ...

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Have you considered using a table of static images for the tooth chart? Rotations, etc. would require different images but I don't think you would need too many.

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Is there any reason why *all* personally identifiable information (PII) could not be encrypted in the database? This would be more secure as the raw database would be useless without decrypting the PII (you could only see an encrypted "blob" representing the PII of a patient and treatment data which...

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It would be easy enough to do with a Vista machine with UAC enabled if you run the commands with administrative permissions. If the backup commands are in a batch file, simply right click on it and select "Run as Administrator" and click Continue or OK on the UAC prompt.

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Is there any kind of audit trail record for entering payments and creating insurance checks on a claim? It does not seem like there is, but it's possible I'm missing something. This is something which I kind of just assumed would be there - if it's not, I'll probably put in a feature request for it ...

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I'm working on the letter merge wizard feature and I cannot figure out how to get the build process to create the .resource for the .resx I have for the form. It's in the project, just when I build it does not create the corresponding .resource in the obj\Debug or obj\Release folders. I did find the...

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That would work. The important thing to keep in mind is that the wizard is just another way to get the same result - a merge "definition". So I think you're right, a "Wizard" button would do the trick. So novices could push that and more experienced users could just add the merge manually.

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I would suggest making it an option. Make the manual setup the default, but provide a checkbox to use the wizard instead. After creating the merge through the wizard, it can be edited using the same interface now.

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Dr. Sparks: I would very much like to still go ahead and create the merge wizard. I like the new sheets system but I do not see letter merges going away any time soon and still believe the "wizard" format would be better. I will try and make the changes as limited as possible. Please let me know if ...

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Actually, it's pretty common for drives to fail at the same time. Usually it's because two drives came from the same manufacturing batch (you likely purchased them together, at the same time, at the same place) and the added stress of reconstructing the RAID (or copying all the data over, in the cas...

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This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Do you know if there any any similar software solutions for Windows?

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Just out of curiosity, what software are you going to use for the wiki? Will users carry over from the forum to the wiki?

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I understand. I do have a question about the sheets though: how easy is it to add new fields to a sheet "type"? That's the main drawback I can see, is that you're limited as to what fields you have available.

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I've been tossing the idea of implementing a "Wizard" for the letter merge creation process around in my head lately. This would, I think, make creating and printing letter merges much simpler and more approachable for the end user. My main grief with the system now is that it is extremely technical...

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Why is the same window used for both editing and "selecting?" I also see this with the procedure code window when clicking on the "Procedure Code" button in the chart. This is confusing in my opinion.

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Open Dental requires the .NET framework to run, no matter what. However, only the feature request system (so far) requires the latest version, 3.5. All other parts of the program depend on features provides by version 2.0. The .NET framework must be installed on each machine you have for the program...

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As I understand it, the guarantor for the family is the individual who is financially responsible for the members of that family. In that sense, the guarantor should always be the one addressed on a statement. It seems to me that the idea of a "walkout" can serve two purposes - that of a "statement"...

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What if there was some kind of list of scheduled appointments when entering treatment (so it would appear on the procedure edit window) so that it would be easy to attach a procedure to an appointment as you're creating it. This would eliminate the "Open appt, oh noes, gotta add this 15-MO, go to ch...

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That makes sense. I tried to find where it decides what info to put on the statement in VS 2008's debugger but I do not know enough about how the reports are generated, I got lost - how difficult do you think it would be to provide an option to choose the default behavior? I'll submit a feature requ...

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When the "Single patient only" option is checked in the statement options, the generated statement is addressed to the current patient and not the guarantor. This looks like a bug to me, but maybe it is by design?

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How feasible would it be to have a "mini" chart window come up instead of the procedure code list? Maybe something like the chart module but without the progress notes area, etc. Just the tooth chart and the proc buttons so they can enter more complicated treatment. Now that I think about it, you'd ...

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I can confirm this behavior, running head/6.2.

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I think libcups is provided by the cups-devel package. I'm not sure what it's called on SUSE, but that should get you on the right track.

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That makes sense. My main concern was because of the speed, good to hear that's going to get better.

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I've completed implementation of a billing charge feature for OD. Changes include: * Generalization of the "Finance Charges" form to allow choice between either finance or billing charges * Refactoring of the adjustment creation logic to support both adjustment types * Refactoring the undo logic to ...

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I think I'm going to try to implement it myself. It will involve factoring the calculation logic into its own method, reorganizing the form for the new option, adding an entry to the preference table, and I'm sure a few other things I'm not thinking of right now. Also, I'm sorry for posting a duplic...

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The DISTINCT statement should do what you want. Something to the effect of "SELECT DISTINCT lname, fname FROM patient WHERE <whatever you need to filter out patients who have TP'd procedures>". DISTINCT works on the entire returned row, so only list those columns which should be unique in the query,...

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I'd like to request a modification/addition to the finance charge system. We are working with an office that uses flat rate billing charges as opposed to finance charges. How feasible would it be to add a radio control to the "Finance Charges" window, with the APR being one choice and a flat rate be...

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We're having a problem where the 'Procedures Not Billed to Insurance' report is pulling in procedures that have been billed to and have received payment from insurance. The only thing I could find on the forums mentioning anything like this was this post from 02/2008: http://70.90.133.65/forum/viewt...

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When printing a label or letter using the Letter Merge (via the toolbar), if you change the printer in the Print dialog to something other than the windows default, when the letter merge completes that newly selected printer is now the Windows default. I traced this back to the following line of cod...

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Thanks, I'm looking forward to it!

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The System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class provides a bool EnableSsl property which, when enabled, allows you to connect to SSL/TLS SMTP servers like Gmail's. A lot of servers now seem to be making SSL mandatory. I tried it on my end by simply setting it to true and it seemed to work correctly. I'd like t...

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We had this problem as well with the Microtek 9800XL, and 5.4 does scan correctly. I think it was mainly an issue of the old TWAIN dll.

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If 'Is Hygiene' is checked, the Dentist's color is still displayed on the time slider to the left. However, the hyg. color is (correctly) displayed in the appointment view. This is a minor cosmetic bug, but I thought I'd put it out there - sounds like it might be an easy fix.

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